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Submitted by Mike on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 10:15am.

We got the Jonathon Demme movie Man From Plains this past week and have watched it three times. I don't think I want to watch it a fourth time, but I enjoyed seeing it three times, kept getting more out of it each time.

First time through I thought it was a pretty wonderful portrait and documentary about Mr. Carter with a focus on his born-again Christian belief that he should follow the Prince of Peace school of Christianity. He is clearly steeped in the Old and New Testament and it would be foolish to enter into a debate with him on the foreign policy application of the Gospels. I think he certainly could teach me a bunch about not reacting with anger when attacked and he was under attack in several sections of the film.

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